InFluxDB: Parallel Data Logging with WinCC OA NextGen Archiver
Siemens ETM released patch 3 for WinCC OA version 3.17, today. You can download WinCC OA V3.17 P003 via our Knowledgebase software download section.
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WinCC OA: Creating Dashboards with Web Technologies
WinCC OA has the ability to embed HTML/JS/CSS into a project. These features are essential for creating modern dashboards. In this quick tutorial, you will learn how to use modern web libraries to interact with WinCC OA.
DevOps: Continuous Deployment Using Git, Jenkins, and WinCC OA
In the IT world, you would NEVER, EVER, EVER make edits to a production system without going through the proper development quality assurance procedures. In the industrial world for some reason, it is acceptable to not test in isolated development environments for issues or changes in a production runtime system. There are many reasons for this…time, availability of tools, “know-how” etc. With the IT and OT worlds converging at an exponential pace, we want to help our industry adopt DevOps practices by showing the tools that are available now. DevOps tools can be leveraged in modern industrial data management software packages like WinCC Open Architecture.
DevOps: Integrating Jenkins into WinCC OA
Over the past few weeks, we have been showing how to use the DevOps practices and tools inside of WinCC OA. Today we will take one big step further and integrate Jenkins into the development process. This tutorial expects you tot have a few things and understand a few others:
WinCC OA: Setting up Chronograf with InfluxDB
With the release of WinCC OA 3.17, one of the newest and biggest changes is the addition of the NextGen Archiver. The NextGen Archiver runs on an InfluxDB database and is a great way to store your data. InfluxDB is one of the fastest-growing time-series databases in the market, which means there are already some fantastic tools that can be used to visualize your data coming out of WinCC OA. The tool I’m going to show today is Chronograf. Chronograf is the user interface for stand-alone instances of InfluxDB, but can also be used to inside of OA.
IIoT | Edge: WinCC OA now Supports Node-RED
Inside of WinCC OA version 3.17, Git will be natively supported, however, with a little bit of work, you can leverage it with version release 3.16. In this post, I will go through the required steps to add Git to your project along with a panel that will be needed to finish the integration.
WinCC OA: How to Add Rulers to the Trend Object
Part of working with an open platform is being able to change or enhance out of the box functionality to meet your needs. This short tutorial will introduce and show you how to add a ruler to WinCC OA. The WinCC OA trend tool comes with a number of out of the box functions. We …
WinCC OA: How to Change “Came” and “Went” Alert Text
The texts for the alarm direction are defined in the WinCC OA message catalog sc.cat, the keywords are “entered” for the CAME-text and “left” for the WENT-text. If you would like to translate or change the texts which are shown in the AEScreen for the alert direction you have to perform the following steps: Step …
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WinCC OA: Simulator Objects
When developing an HMI/SCADA application, sometimes you may not have access to data sources (i.e. PLC, sensors) however, you still have the need to test your io datapoint connections. In this blog post, I will quickly show you how to set up a WinCC OA Simulator Object. The simulators generate different curve shapes and can, …